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HoneyBook, a customer-relationship management platform aimed at small businesses in creative fields, announced today it has raised a $28 million Series C led by Citi Ventures. All of its existing investors, including Norwest Venture Partners, Aleph, Vintage Investment Partners and Hillsven Capital, also returned for the round. Citi is a strategic partner for HoneyBook and [&#8230;]

Flip the &#8220;days since last Facebook security incident&#8221; back to zero. Facebook confirmed Thursday in a blog post, prompted by a report by cybersecurity reporter Brian Krebs, that it stored &#8220;hundreds of millions&#8221; of account passwords in plaintext for years. The discovery was made in January, said Facebook&#8217;s Pedro Canahuati, as part of a routine [&#8230;]

Dan Frommer has worked at some of the best-known publications in tech and business journalism — he was editor in chief of Recode, an editor at Business Insider and he&#8217;s even done some writing and chart-making for TechCrunch. But he&#8217;s also started his own things, including the tech news site SplatF and the mobile travel [&#8230;]

In the wake of Apex Legends, which has briskly grown to 50 million players, many have wondered whether Fortnite has felt the impact. But Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney told GamesBeat that Apex hasn&#8217;t really made a dent. Without being asked about Apex Legends, Sweeney said &#8220;an Apex Legends worth&#8221; of players have come over [&#8230;]

The U.K.&#8217;s Police Federation has confirmed it&#8217;s been hit by a cyberattack. The union-like organization, representing 119,000 police officers across the 43 forces in England and Wales, described the event as ransomware in a statement shared on Twitter. The ransomware attack hit computers at the federation&#8217;s Surrey headquarters on March 9, but was only revealed [&#8230;]

As founding CEO of MoviePass, Stacy Spikes has already changed the way we think about paying for movie tickets. Now he&#8217;s pursuing a new approach — providing a free ticket to people who watch 15 to 20 minutes of ads. Spikes told me that when it comes to watching movies outside the theater, there are [&#8230;]

Ludlow Ventures raised another $45 million to invest in young startups. The Detroit-based venture firm is today announcing it closed its third fund since the firm’s founding in 2010. Founding and managing partner Jonathon Triest tells TechCrunch the firm set out to raise another $45M and were immediately oversubscribed. Triest says Ludlow Ventures, with its [&#8230;]